The Meursault investigation / (Record no. 29951)
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| fixed length control field | 02082cam a2200229 i 4500 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20160210115609.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 150320s2015 nyu 000 1 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781590517512 (paperback) |
| 041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 843.92 |
| Item number | DAO |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Daoud, Kamel, |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Meursault investigation / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Kamel Daoud ; translated from the French by John Cullen. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 143 pages ; |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | "Originally published in French as Meursault, contre-enquête by Éditions Barzakh in Algeria in 2013, and by Actes Sud in France in 2014" -- Verso title page. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him remain anonymous: he gives his brother a story and a name--Musa--and describes the events that led to Musa's casual murder on a dazzlingly sunny beach. Harun is an old man tormented by frustration. In a bar in Oran, night after night, he ruminates on his solitude, on his anger with men desperate for a god, and on his disarray when faced with a country that has so disappointed him. A stranger among his own people, he wants to be granted, finally, the right to die. The Stranger is of course central to Daoud's novel, in which he both endorses and criticizes one of the most famous novels in the world. A worthy complement to its great predecessor, The Mersault Investigation is not only a profound meditation on Arab identity and the disastrous effects of colonialism in Algeria, but also a stunning work of literature in its own right, told in a unique and affecting voice."-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Arabs |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Middle Eastern. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | FICTION / Literary. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Cullen, John, |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | 9781590517512.jpg |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Lost status | Damaged status | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Central Library | Central Library | General Section | 02/02/2016 | Researchco Books | 1029.96 | 843.92 DAO | 029608 | Books |
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